Firing back! Jade Roper called out an Instagram user for mom-shaming the Bachelor in Paradise alum after posting a video of her 3-year-old daughter, Emerson.
In the Sunday, September 13, social media upload, the toddler wore a Sleeping Beauty dress from Jared Haibon and Ashley Iaconetti. While she modeled the pink gown in the mirror, Emerson told the Colorado native, 33: “No pictures.”
Roper’s hater called the footage “beyond disturbing,” explaining, “Eek … your daughter specifically asked for no pictures and you made a choice not to honor that. Just know it isn’t sitting well with people in a few different Bach groups I’m in.”
The “Mommies Tell All” podcast cohost replied. “My kids are the MOST LOVED and honored kids. We respect them 1000 percent go ahead and mom shame me.”
The Naturally Jade Cosmetics creator shared a screenshot of the direct messages on her Instagram Story, writing, “Mom-shaming at its finest. My kids are loved and respected beyond words.”
She and her husband, Tanner Tolbert, also share their son, Brooks, 13 months, and are expecting their third child.
In October 2019, Roper and Carly Waddell opened up exclusively to Us Weekly about the “next-level” mommy shaming they both experience on social media.
“We already as moms already have enough guilt,” Roper told Us at the time. “Like, we’re already trying to be a perfect parent for our kids. … People parent differently all over the world, culturally. Even my next-door [neighbors] parent differently than I do. It’s just what’s best for our family, but people like to bring that in and try to put it on top of you.”
Criticism has ranged from “the big stuff to the small stuff,” the Bachelor alum explained, telling Us, “The most intense things are like, ‘Do you vaccinate your kids or do you not vaccinate your kids?’ But there’s things like sleep training, like, ‘Do you let your kid cry it out? Do you not let your kid cry it out?’ or ‘How long do you breast-feed?’ or ‘Oh, my gosh, it’s a little chilly outside, why doesn’t your kid have a coat on? Why did you do that? Why does your kid not have shoes on? It’s outside, they could step on something.’ It’s so drastic.”
Waddell, 34, chimed in, saying that Roper shuts trolls down “in the nicest, kindest way” possible. “Sometimes, when you feel really strongly about something, you will post a comment back that is so well-worded,” the “Dream Train” singer explained. “It’s, like, what every mom wants to say, but no one knows how to say it properly.”
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